JOHANNESBURG/07 December 2018 – The Secretariat, Rhodes Scholarships in Southern Africa is pleased to announce the election of the 2018 Rhodes Scholars-elect for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Swaziland to study at the University of Oxford from...

At a pan-African conference with more than 40,000 delegates, one imagines that a not insignificant proportion of attendees are parents of young children. There is also the emerging trend of business travellers who take their children along on business trips, out of...

The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (AFRE), one of six interconnected Atlantic Fellows programs, which together create a global community to advance fairer, healthier, and more inclusive societies, has announced its inaugural 2018 class of fellows. They will begin...

Engen Petroleum and Nedbank have partnered with Raizcorp to bring the ENGEN Pitch & Polish programme to cities and towns across South Africa, for the eighth time. The programme helps to educate and grow entrepreneurs. It teaches entrepreneurs how to polish their...

IT WAS said of the class of 1976. It was said of the youth who came of age in the early 1990s, just before the dawn of democracy. Each generation was declared as “lost”. Now, just more than two decades into democracy, another generation faces the grim...

A few months ago, I spoke to Ronald Lamola and Dr Thabi Leoka, about student activism. It was a wide-ranging discussion about politics on South African campuses over the ages. Lamola and Leoka represent different brands of activism. Thabi was part of a non-racial,...